[COMM 2303] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (23 pages long!)

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2303
• Professor: Margaret Williams

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This will increase chances for intercultural communication: heterogenous differences in a group or, homogenous similarities in a group or population, diversity the quality of being different population. Immigration patterns influence the social landscape of the u. s. It can be mind opening, but does not automatically lead to more interaction. e) Immigrants people who come to a new country, region, or environment to settle more or less permanently i) ii) During the great depression mexicans were forced to return to mexico to create more jobs for the whites, however, when the economy got back up on it"s feet mexicans were welcomed back as a source of cheap labour. Explains the experience of european immigrants but not that of latinos. Chinese exclusion act (1882) flow of chinese immigrants: wavering economies affect immigration policies; iii) By the 1930s, southern and eastern european groups were considered. Assimilatable, and the concept of race assumed new meaning.